Wunder Mobility Podcast
83 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWelcome to the "Wunder Mobility Podcast". Every two weeks we will provide you with exciting insights around the Future of Mobility. Tune in as we invite thought leaders from the mobility sector to share their vision, products, successes, and setbacks.
We cannot solve the challenges facing our industry alone. We must work together — with companies, cities, political organizations, NGOs, and more — to build our future. The Wunder Mobility Podcast provides the space for us to collaborate and learn from one another.
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#55 Jerome Joubert, Head of Mobility 2.0 & Lennart Höhl, Innovation and Data Senior Lead Mobility, Allianz Partners
April 30, 2024 09:15 - 27 minutes - 23.9 MBJerome Joubert oversees Allianz Partners´ Mobility 2.0 initiative that addresses current automotive trends such as electrification, online car sales, telematics, and their impact on motor insurance. Lennart Hoehl is responsible for innovation and data-driven offerings, specifically using connected vehicle and sensor data to develop individualized insurance and services. Together at Allianz Partners, they collaborate to ensure adaptation to the evolving mobility landscape by offering compellin...
#54 Juhan Kaarma, Co-founder & CEO, OXDrive
March 26, 2024 08:52 - 45 minutes - 36.9 MBJuhan Kaarma is the Co-founder of OXDrive, an innovative and fast growing car-sharing company based in Latvia with Tesla EV’s in their fleet, among other brands. However, before launching OXDrive with his fellow founding partners, Juhan spent his early years dreaming of one day ending up on tech-crunch and even ended up building 2 SaaS businesses before he discovered his immense love for electric shared mobility. Today OXDrive has enabled over 4 million km drives on zero emission, doing thei...
#53 Renn Vara, Founder & Executive Coach, SNP Communications
February 28, 2024 10:32 - 34 minutes - 27.5 MBRenn Vara is the Co-Founder of SNP Communications, an acronym for "smart, nice people," a full-service communications agency specializing in high-performing leaders and teams. With over 30 years of experience, Renn is also a seasoned executive coach, having launched his career in 1992 on the staircases of Capitol Hill. Alongside his co-founder and wife, Mo, they have provided coaching to founders from Google to Airbnb, and even Wunder. Throughout the past decade, Renn has played a pivotal rol...
#48 Alessio Treglia , CEO & Founder, Elerent
January 24, 2024 13:16 - 35 minutes - 28.5 MBAlessio Treglia is the CEO and founder of Elerent, a shared mobility franchising operating in 60 countries around Southern Europe. By sharing their know-how and promoting the values of sustainability and safety, Elerent enables business owners to become franchisees and bring multimodal sharing mobility in their cities. In this way, mobility services are managed directly by local actors, who are in touch with the municipality, know city initiatives and hot points, and can manage operations fas...
#52 Timo Möller, Co-Lead, McKinsey Center of Future Mobility
January 11, 2024 15:59 - 48 minutes - 39.3 MBDr. Timo Möller co-leads McKinsey's Center for Future Mobility, specializing in strategic and operational aspects of disruptive trends in the mobility industry, including connectivity, autonomous driving, electrification, and shared mobility. With two decades of experience, he has played a pivotal role in assisting both scale-ups and incumbents in the transformation of mobility businesses. As a partner based in McKinsey's Cologne office, Timo has led numerous research projects and contributed...
#51 Caroline Seton, Co-Founder & Head of Growth, Forest
December 19, 2023 16:02 - 36 minutes - 29.2 MBCaroline Seton is Head of Growth and co-founder of Forest. Caroline joined Forest from Finsbury, where she advised the UK’s largest companies on their public affairs and public relations strategies. Prior to that, Caroline was a commercial lawyer. Caroline holds a LLB, BCom and a Masters of Financial Journalism.
#50 Thibault Castagne, CEO & Co-Founder, Vianova
November 10, 2023 14:06 - 44 minutes - 36.2 MBFrom studying financial engineering to launching a career as a Quantitative Trader at HSBC, Thibault Castagna, the CEO of Vianova, appeared to be quite distant from the world of mobility at the time. However, he later transitioned into the role of an investment manager in the energy & macro fund, where he established and managed the renewable energy investment vehicle. This experience nurtured his passion for energy transition and electric mobility, ultimately leading him to co-found Spark Ho...
#49 Dennis Brinckmann, Co-Founder & Managing Director , Velocity Mobility
October 09, 2023 19:10 - 42 minutes - 34.9 MBFrom the early beginning Dennis Brinckmann Co-Founder & CEO of Velocity was an e-bike enthusiast who eventually decided to venture into the sharing economy in 2014. At the beginning of the project he focused on pursuing local goals such as the establishment of a regional e-bike sharing service with easy-to-use vehicles and low-cost rates, the concept very soon gained national recognition. However with time the concept very soon gained national recognition and became Velocity Mobility ; A tech...
#47 Robin Blichfeldt , CEO & Co-founder, Cogo
June 23, 2023 13:42 - 42 minutes - 34.3 MBRobin is the CEO and co-founder of Cogo - Europe's largest shared mobility aggregator. With his vision to simplify the world of shared mobility Cogo is connecting over 500,000 electric scooters, bikes, cars, and mopeds from 300 operators across 70 countries and 700 cities worldwide. Thus, today Cogo empowers users to effortlessly find, ride, and pay for shared vehicles from multiple operators, all through a single platform. Before embarking on his shared mobility journey, Robin was the drivi...
#46 Freek Borghgraef, Co- Founder & Head of Customer Development , StriveCloud
May 26, 2023 13:39 - 37 minutes - 30.6 MBFreek was only 16 years old when he started his first business, and straight after University he continued scaling the local gaming platform by the name of Kayzr. The platform then became the biggest in the Benelux with over 100.000 users, mainly due to the use of game-like elements. Kayzr was sold but the know-how of gamification was reused to found StriveCloud, a company that helps any kind of digital service be more successful by integrating gamification.
#45 René Braun, CEO & Co-Founder , RYDES
May 19, 2023 15:38 - 41 minutes - 33.2 MBRené Braun is the CEO and co-founder of RYDES and before embarking on the journey which became RYDES , he spent what felt like his whole life working in the mobility space, always having looking at it from different angles. He first worked strategically for Bombardier Transportation, the company's rail branch, for several years, then joining the Lufthansa Innovation Hub. There, as an outdoor enthusiast, he founded a travel company brokering tours and focused mainly on the financial side of th...
#44 Harry Maxwell, Head of Marketing, Fluctuo
April 19, 2023 13:39 - 38 minutes - 31.4 MBHarry discovered his passion for shared mobility whilst working at Fifteen, the shared bike manufacturer. He now leads content efforts at Fluctuo, and is responsible for producing the most exhaustive and widely-read report on shared mobility: the European Shared Mobility Index.
#43 François Hoehlinger , Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Troopy
March 29, 2023 15:18 - 47 minutes - 38.1 MBFrançois and Gunnar’s opinions about the upcoming vote on a potential ban on e-scooters in Paris🇫🇷 on 2nd April, How Troopy has grown and where its going, and the importance of dominating your home turf before you can consider yourself to be profitable Alumni of EMLYON Business School & Polytechnique in France. François is an entrepreneur and a mobility expert who’s currently the Managing Director of Troopy, one of the European moped sharing companies, based in Paris. After a care...
#42 Alexander Kirn , CEO, INVERS
March 17, 2023 13:40 - 49 minutes - 39.6 MBAlexander Kirn, CEO of INVERS, has 20+ years of experience as an entrepreneur, kick-starting and running high-growth software companies. After the sale of his first company, which he founded at the age of 14, he became an investment professional at Summit Partners, focusing on the expansion of tech companies in growth markets. In 2009, he founded Fleet Technology, a holding company that brings together technology-driven companies in the mobility, sharing economy and IoT (Internet of Things) ...
#41 Patrick Arle , CEO & Founder, MotionTools
March 01, 2023 10:07 - 50 minutes - 40.6 MBPatrick discovered his passion for the transportation industry early in 2005 when he started his studies of computer science and business management .Then continued his journey by holding several roles at Lufthansa German Airlines, including assistant to the CEO, as well as project- and product manager, working with customers such as United Airlines. Before launching MotionTools in 2017, Patrick helped to build up Wunder Mobility, a leading software and hardware provider for sharing mobility...
#40 Augustin Friedel, Shared Mobility Expert
June 06, 2022 00:00 - 51 minutes - 41.2 MBAugustin is a well-known shared mobility expert with passion for micro mobility, mobility on-demand service and public private partnerships.
#39 Sam Baker, Managing Partner, MobilityFund
May 23, 2022 00:00 - 40 minutes - 32.8 MBSam studied Finance and Music before he started his career at eBay. He lived in Central America where he led a project funded by the Mastercard Foundation to launch innovative financial products for youth. When he returned to California Sam and Gunnar met and ultimately decided to launch the forerunner of Wunder Mobility. Today Sam is Managing partner at MobilityFund.
#38 Julien Chamussy, Co-founder & CEO, fluctuo
May 09, 2022 09:16 - 45 minutes - 36.7 MBJulien Chamussy is the CEO and co-founder of fluctuo, Europe’s aggregator of data on shared mobility services like bike, scooter, moped or car sharing. Prior to that, Julien was VP Marketing of Smovengo, the operator of Vélib which is the public bike-sharing service in Paris and the greater area. fluctuo sources data from various mobility operators and open source and uses it to provide an overview of the shared mobility industry. Every quarter, they publish the European Shared Mobility Inde...
#37 Jennifer Dungs, Global Head of Mobility, EIT InnoEnergy
April 25, 2022 19:49 - 51 minutes - 41.2 MBJennifer has spent over 20 years in the automotive industry, including Ford, BMW and Porsche. She contributes regularly to Forbes and is a global speaker on the topic of Future Mobility. Today, as Global Head of Mobility at EIT InnoEnergy, she is responsible for all mobility investments with 30 new seed and Series A investments in the last 2 years. How does InnoEnergy support the European mobility value chain? How does Jennifer envision Shared Mobility from Europe? Why InnoEnergy hasn't inv...
#36 Maya Ben Dror, Practice Manager, Automotive & New Mobility, World Economic Forum
April 11, 2022 12:28 - 46 minutes - 37.2 MBMaya's career is outstanding: she holds a PhD in dynamic transportation policy and technology transition from the Technion and has more than a decade and a half of global work experience in the public, private and third sectors, with a focus on clean technologies and sustainable transport. At WEF, she now leads the Sustainable Automotive and Mobility work. We started the conversation by elaborating on the WEF's unique approach to improving the state of the world and dived deep into the topic...
#35 Cory Schmidt, Chief Revenue Officer, Wunder Mobility
March 28, 2022 19:21 - 24 minutes - 19.7 MBCory is CRO of Wunder Mobility, the international provider of software and hardware for shared mobility services. In his executive leadership role, Cory oversees Wunder Mobility's marketing and sales organization as well as the account management. Over the last one and a half years Cory wrote his first book on brand primacy and how google made companies the kings of content. We spoke with him about why building a company's brand is so important and how creating valuable content helps bring or...
#34 Karen Vancluysen, Secretary General, POLIS Network
March 14, 2022 13:47 - 36 minutes - 29.1 MBKaren was appointed as Secretary General of POLIS in September 2014, after havening been the Network's Research Director. Since then she's leading the European network of cities and regions on urban transport innovation. For over 30 years already, members have been working together to develop and deploy sustainable and innovative urban mobility solutions for the city of today and tomorrow. Karen is certain that what was originally the preserve of the public sector, namely the provision of mo...
#33 Raymon Pouwels, Co-founder & CEO, GO Sharing
February 28, 2022 18:04 - 39 minutes - 32.1 MBRaymon, 28, was born and raised in the Netherlands. Today he is CEO of one of Europe's fastest-growing shared mobility operators. While he made his first experience in scooter-sharing with German scooter manufacturer Emco, in 2019 he decided together with Donny van den Oever and Doeke Boersma to start GO Sharing with 168 mopeds in Eindhoven. Since then they have multiplied their fleet size several times and now operate a multimodal fleet of about 15,000 vehicles in 60 cities, in 6 countries. ...
#32 Thomas Grübel, CEO & Founder, GOVECS
February 07, 2022 11:20 - 39 minutes - 32 MBThomas is an entrepreneur and pioneer in the field of electric mobility with more than 20 years of experience in this field. After years in Hong Kong and a successful exit from e-max that was acquired by Vmoto, Thomas founded Govecs in 2009. Today, Govecs has a 10.5% market share in the fragmented shared electric moped market, making it the fourth-largest manufacturer in the world and the largest from Europe. We spoke with him about the benefits and advantages of being a German-based compan...
#31 Christian Springub, Co-founder & COO, Dance
January 24, 2022 13:00 - 39 minutes - 32 MBChristian began his entrepreneurial career in his teenage years when he founded and ran a successful web design agency. In 2007, he co-founded Jimdo, which went on to become one of the world’s leading DIY website builders. After stepping back from daily operations at Jimdo, he founded Dance, the premium e-bike subscription provider, with SoundCloud founders Quidenus-Wahlforss and Ljung. We spoke to Christian about the market potential of tech-enabled e-bike subscriptions, how they stand out f...
#30 Silvia Fischer, Vice President Smart Mobility, FREE NOW
December 13, 2021 02:00 - 32 minutes - 26.6 MBSilvia joined FREE NOW in 2020 to support the strategic transition from a pure ride-hailing provider to the leading Mobility-as-a-Service platform in Europe. In her role, she is responsible for integrating mobility operators into the FREE NOW platforms to achieve the goal of comprehensive multimodality. With her, we talked about the conscious decision to become a multimodal platform: - What’s behind the strategy to become Europe’s super mobility app to get from A to B? - What’s the business...
#28 Silvia Fischer, Vice President Smart Mobility, FREE NOW
December 13, 2021 02:00 - 32 minutes - 26.6 MBSilvia joined FREE NOW in 2020 to support the strategic transition from a pure ride-hailing provider to the leading Mobility-as-a-Service platform in Europe. In her role, she is responsible for integrating mobility operators into the FREE NOW platforms to achieve the goal of comprehensive multimodality. With her, we talked about the conscious decision to become a multimodal platform: - What’s behind the strategy to become Europe’s super mobility app to get from A to B? - What’s the business...
#29 Nico Gabriel, COO, SIXT
November 29, 2021 08:30 - 24 minutes - 19.7 MBNico is nothing less than a home-grown SIXT veteran. He started his career back in 2004 as a trainee and steered the SIXT core business of car rental with the branch network as Operations and Business Development Manager before he shaped free-floating car sharing as Co-CEO at DRIVE NOW. Since 2018, Nico has served as Divisional Director Mobility Operations and was thus responsible for the digitalization initiatives, the car-sharing offer and the SIXT ONE platform at an early stage. In January...
#27 Nico Gabriel, COO, SIXT
November 29, 2021 08:30 - 24 minutes - 19.7 MBNico is nothing less than a home-grown SIXT veteran. He started his career back in 2004 as a trainee and steered the SIXT core business of car rental with the branch network as Operations and Business Development Manager before he shaped free-floating car sharing as Co-CEO at DRIVE NOW. Since 2018, Nico has served as Divisional Director Mobility Operations and was thus responsible for the digitalization initiatives, the car-sharing offer and the SIXT ONE platform at an early stage. In January...
#26 Oliver Mackprang, CEO, MILES
November 15, 2021 02:00 - 42 minutes - 34.4 MBOliver Mackprang is a native Canadian who has lived in Berlin for 15 years. In 2012, he founded the carsharing aggregator company CarJump which was sold to PSA in 2016 and where the app was subsequently renamed in free2move. He has previously worked for the management consulting firm KEARNEY as well as the ridepooling provider MOIA before joining MILES in 2019. We spoke to Oliver about how MILES differentiates itself in a competitive market, what developments he has seen in recent years and ...
#28 Oliver Mackprang, CEO, MILES
November 15, 2021 02:00 - 42 minutes - 34.1 MBOliver Mackprang is a native Canadian who has lived in Berlin for 15 years. In 2012, he founded the carsharing aggregator company CarJump which was sold to PSA in 2016 and where the app was subsequently renamed in free2move. He has previously worked for the management consulting firm KEARNEY as well as the ridepooling provider MOIA before joining MILES in 2019. We spoke to Oliver about how MILES differentiates itself in a competitive market, what developments he has seen in recent years and ...
#27 Jonas Seyfferth, Director, Strategy&
November 03, 2021 17:00 - 36 minutes - 29.9 MBAfter having built up the career platform squeaker.net, Jonas is leading for the last ten years large-scale digital strategy and transformation projects in the automotive, mobility and TMT sectors at Strategy&, part of the PwC network. He focuses on digital innovation, data-driven business models, ecosystem partner management and corporate venturing. We explored with Jonas the question of how large automotive companies innovate and which business models he believes are emerging. In particula...
#25 Jonas Seyfferth, Director, Strategy&
November 03, 2021 17:00 - 36 minutes - 29.9 MBAfter having built up the career platform squeaker.net, Jonas is leading for the last ten years large-scale digital strategy and transformation projects in the automotive, mobility and TMT sectors at Strategy&, part of the PwC network. He focuses on digital innovation, data-driven business models, ecosystem partner management and corporate venturing. We explored with Jonas the question of how large automotive companies innovate and which business models he believes are emerging. In particula...
#24 Detlef Müller, Member of the German Bundestag and Member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD)
September 14, 2021 14:10 - 34 minutes - 28.5 MBDetlef Müller is a member of the Bundestag (the German parliament) and a member of the Committee on Transport and Digital Infrastructure. He strongly believes that the federal government needs to invest money in public transportation if it wants to overcome the status quo and reach the climate goals of the Parisian Climate Agreement. In this episode, he explains the role he sees public transport and private (shared) mobility providers playing and how the providers harmonize without cannib...
#26 Detlef Müller, Member of the German Bundestag and Member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD)
September 14, 2021 14:10 - 34 minutes - 28.2 MBDetlef Müller is a member of the Bundestag (the German parliament) and a member of the Committee on Transport and Digital Infrastructure. He strongly believes that the federal government needs to invest money in public transportation if it wants to overcome the status quo and reach the climate goals of the Parisian Climate Agreement. In this episode, he explains the role he sees public transport and private (shared) mobility providers playing and how the providers harmonize without cannib...
#23 Daniela Kluckert, Member of the German Bundestag & Member of the Free Democratic Party
August 23, 2021 13:25 - 34 minutes - 28.3 MBDaniela Kluckert is a member of the Bundestag (the German parliament) and serves as deputy chairwoman of the Committee on Transport and Digital Infrastructure. Daniela is committed to ensuring that all road users have equal rights and that decisions about the future are made in a non-ideological way. In this episode, she tells us how she envisions multimodal transport smart connections between different mobility modes in the future and how the governing authorities can provide the right i...
#25 Daniela Kluckert, Member of the German Bundestag & Member of the Free Democratic Party
August 23, 2021 13:25 - 34 minutes - 28.3 MBDaniela Kluckert is a member of the Bundestag (the German parliament) and serves as deputy chairwoman of the Committee on Transport and Digital Infrastructure. Daniela is committed to ensuring that all road users have equal rights and that decisions about the future are made in a non-ideological way. In this episode, she tells us how she envisions multimodal transport smart connections between different mobility modes in the future and how the governing authorities can provide the right i...
#24 Stefan Gelbhaar, Member of the German Bundestag & Member of Bündnis 90/ Die Grünen
August 09, 2021 13:15 - 40 minutes - 32.6 MBSince 2017, Stefan Gelbhaar has been a member of the Bundestag (the German parliament) as the spokesperson for urban mobility and cycling. Since 2020, he is the spokesperson for transport policy for the Green Party. We spoke to him about the three most important transport policy cornerstones of the Greens’ election program: a. tackling the climate crisis by de-carbonizing the transport sector b. improving road safety c. addressing urbanization by restructuring transport flows and introducing...
#22 Stefan Gelbhaar, Member of the German Bundestag & Member of Bündnis 90/ Die Grünen
August 09, 2021 13:15 - 40 minutes - 33 MBSince 2017, Stefan Gelbhaar has been a member of the Bundestag (the German parliament) as the spokesperson for urban mobility and cycling. Since 2020, he is the spokesperson for transport policy for the Green Party. We spoke to him about the three most important transport policy cornerstones of the Greens’ election program: a. tackling the climate crisis by de-carbonizing the transport sector b. improving road safety c. addressing urbanization by restructuring transport flows and introducing...
#21 Matteo Maestri, Founder & CEO, Estrima Birò
July 28, 2021 16:50 - 32 minutes - 26.7 MBAt just 32 years old, Matteo founded Estrima with the vision to improve the quality of mobility in the city, thanks to a vehicle designed not only for private use but for hiring and sharing as well. He takes us onto the journey of his company, explains the advantages of a covered LEV and why they designed a new type of vehicle including a peer-to-peer solution.
#23 Matteo Maestri, Founder & CEO, Estrima Birò
July 28, 2021 16:50 - 32 minutes - 26.7 MBAt just 32 years old, Matteo founded Estrima with the vision to improve the quality of mobility in the city, thanks to a vehicle designed not only for private use but for hiring and sharing as well. He takes us onto the journey of his company, explains the advantages of a covered LEV and why they designed a new type of vehicle including a peer-to-peer solution.
#Special Valerian Seither, Co-founder & CEO, emmy
July 12, 2021 09:15 - 44 minutes - 36.2 MBValerian and his emmy sharing co-founder Alexander pioneered e-moped sharing in Germany in 2015, at a time when no one was really about it. (The only other vehicle-sharing solution on the market was Car2Go.) What started as an idea conceived at a barbecue with friends turned into Germany’s leading moped-sharing company with immediately recognizable red-orange vehicles. In this special episode, Valerian takes us through emmy’s founding story, how they are improving operational excellence, wh...
#22 Valerian Seither, Co-founder & CEO, emmy
July 12, 2021 09:15 - 44 minutes - 36.2 MBValerian and his emmy sharing co-founder Alexander pioneered e-moped sharing in Germany in 2015, at a time when no one was really about it. (The only other vehicle-sharing solution on the market was Car2Go.) What started as an idea conceived at a barbecue with friends turned into Germany’s leading moped-sharing company with immediately recognizable red-orange vehicles. In this special episode, Valerian takes us through emmy’s founding story, how they are improving operational excellence, wh...
#21 Susan Shaheen, Professor, University of California, Berkeley
July 01, 2021 09:20 - 49 minutes - 40 MBSusan is a professor of civil and environmental engineering and co-director of the transportation sustainability research center at the University Berkely. She was among the first to observe, research, and write about changing dynamics in shared mobility. We talked to her about the development of whether there will be a separation between public and private transport in the future, about how to create a healthy mobility ecosystem with complementarity and less competition, and how public tra...
#20 Susan Shaheen, Professor, University of California, Berkeley
July 01, 2021 09:20 - 49 minutes - 40 MBSusan is a professor of civil and environmental engineering and co-director of the transportation sustainability research center at the University Berkely. She was among the first to observe, research, and write about changing dynamics in shared mobility. We talked to her about the development of whether there will be a separation between public and private transport in the future, about how to create a healthy mobility ecosystem with complementarity and less competition, and how public tra...
#19 Michael Barillère-Scholz, Co-founder & CEO, ioki - a DB company
June 14, 2021 01:00 - 42 minutes - 34.3 MBSince 2017, Michael has been working at ioki on the digitalization of public transport and its seamless connection to existing systems, as well as the integration of new forms of mobility. On-demand shuttles are increasingly being integrated into public transport. Michael explains to us why this makes sense, how it works and what impact autonomous vehicles will have on current transport operations.
#20 Michael Barillère-Scholz, Co-founder & CEO, ioki - a DB company
June 14, 2021 01:00 - 42 minutes - 33.9 MBSince 2017, Michael has been working at ioki on the digitalization of public transport and its seamless connection to existing systems, as well as the integration of new forms of mobility. On-demand shuttles are increasingly being integrated into public transport. Michael explains to us why this makes sense, how it works and what impact autonomous vehicles will have on current transport operations.
#18 Timo Buetefisch, Co-founder & CEO, Cooltra
June 03, 2021 07:55 - 38 minutes - 30.9 MBTimo leads Cooltra, the largest provider of sustainable mobility solutions on two wheels in Europe. In 2006 Timo started with 25 units and grew it over time to almost 17.000 mopeds in cities like Madrid, Barcelona, Milan, Rome, or Lisboa. As a first-mover in this space, he gained enormous knowledge on how to operate a moped sharing business and told us what he expects European city authorities will do in the future, unit economics, and why he recently teamed up with Free Now.
#19 Timo Buetefisch, Co-founder & CEO, Cooltra
June 03, 2021 07:55 - 38 minutes - 31 MBTimo leads Cooltra, the largest provider of sustainable mobility solutions on two wheels in Europe. In 2006 Timo started with 25 units and grew it over time to almost 17.000 mopeds in cities like Madrid, Barcelona, Milan, Rome, or Lisboa. As a first-mover in this space, he gained enormous knowledge on how to operate a moped sharing business and told us what he expects European city authorities will do in the future, unit economics, and why he recently teamed up with Free Now.
#17 Hui Zhang, Vice President Europe, NIO
May 17, 2021 08:10 - 39 minutes - 32.3 MBHui Zhang is Vice President of NIO Europe. He heads the German and the UK office of the global electric car startup from Shanghai. According to yahoo finance, NIO has made a big name for itself among electric car makers in recent years and currently has a market cap of nearly $55 billion. Hui takes us through the NIO universe, explaining why Apple is a better role model than any other well-known automaker and why NIO believes consumers want to own a premium EV. In this episode, you'll also l...